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Security Linux News for Jun 06, 2001

SecurityPortal: A Matter of Trust: How Apache.org Was Compromised(Jun 06, 2001, 21:00)
Kurt Seifried discusses how Apache.org was compromised, offering
that part of a growing problem we face in computer security is
trust: "The SSH protocol is used to secure these connections with
strong encryption, which provides a tunnel between the two
communicating machines. Furthermore, it is assumed that the end
developer's machine is secure, and that there are no keystroke
loggers running, or items like KeyGhost hooked up to the machine.
Herein lies a problem. More and more people are using machines that
are not always secure or should not be considered "trusted."

LinuxPlanet: .comment: My Semi-Annual Security Rant(Jun 06, 2001, 13:10)
What do your politics have to do with your computer? For some,
who question conventional wisdom and large institutions, the answer
is an unashamed "everything." Going down a list of some of the
worst recent privacy abuses, from weapon-sniffing scanners to the
seemingly innocuous TiVO, Dennis E. Powell addresses the ironies
inherent in a computing community intent on maintaining its
firewalls while personal privacy vanishes. "Say hello to Big
Brother," says Dennis.

Phil Zimmerman: PGP Marks 10th Anniversary(Jun 06, 2001, 02:55)
June 5th is the 10th anniversary of PGP 1.0. This message from
PGP's author, Phil Zimmerman, offers a look back at the creation
and early history of his software, which helped bring strong
cryptography to the public.